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Diptyque Oyedo Perfume Review

July 20, 2018

After a hiatus due to moving and traveling, I have decided to bombard this perfume blog with “weird eau de colognes” this week. It’s hot, humid and gross. I want to smell fresh and clean but with something that is a little more interesting than the usual. Like Mugler Hot Cologne, Diptyque Oyédo is a citrus with a twist.

Oyedo opens as a juicy, fruity orange mingling with a juicy lemon. There’s definitely something cool and mentholated in this that reminds me of a cough drop. I don’t know if it is psychosomatic or what, but I swear it’s so mentholated, that I *can feel* the coolness on my skin. I can’t really explain to you why I like something that smells like citrus on uppers and also like something you’d buy in the “Cold & Flu” aisle of your drugstore, but I do. I think Oyédo is a great fragrance, especially in the summer. It cuts through muggy air with the ease of a knife being sold on an infomercial that is giving me the hard sell and I AM BUYING IT. The dry-down is weird and herbal. The citrus are dialed down and there’s something that smells like moss growing on stones (mineral, green, cool and damp).

If I had to choose one word to describe Oyedo, I wouldn’t go for a word but more of an onomatopoeia: ZING! It’s a zesty, energetic fragrance that zooms on by. I also think of it as a lemon in a snowbank. When it’s hot like this, it’s the sort of thing I want to wear. It’s a real pick-me-up.

It’s very much a citrus-centric fragrance so it wears more like a “cologne”. It is an EDT. I think projection and longevity is average for an EDT but it doesn’t last as long as others from the brand (such as Eau Duelle).

Oyédo comes in a few sizes with the 1.7 oz retails for $95 at Nordstrom and Saks.

Victoria’s Final EauPINION – Mentholated citrus. It’s sort of like a Jakeman’scough drop but so much more juicier. Lemons in snow. It’s what I want when it’s hot and muggy.